“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
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“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― diary of Anne Frank: the play
― diary of Anne Frank: the play
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
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